Protein..?

My hematologist called me on my cell, which shows that he got the message I left with his secretary the day before otherwise he’d have called me at home. At first, he said “you don’t want to do another bone marrow biopsy, do you?” I immediately giggled a bit and said no, as I automatically assumed he was joking, knowing the amount of pain I went through the last time (last few times to be exact). He continued after that.

“you have protein in your bone marrow…too much protein” is what he said.

About a million thoughts went through my mind. What does this mean? What do I do now? Maybe he wasn’t joking…maybe he DOES seriously want me to do another biopsy. How is this going to effect the transplant?

He then asked me if I had any appointments coming up at the hospital so that I could come and see him at the same time. I told him that I didn’t, however I would come in any day that he wanted me to. I’m not in school or at work or anything, so none of my other activities would be disturbed. Even if I DID have other activities…this sounds important. He said he wanted to run a few more tests. I agreed.

Again, he didn’t give me any specific details as to what this means. The first thing I did after hanging up the phone was jump on google. I was a bit startled (google “too much protein in bone marrow” to see what I saw). It’s important not to “jump the gun” and get all sorts of ideas into my mind before I actually see the doctor, so that’s what I’m going to do: remain cool, calm, and collected.

I told my brother. I’ve always been my brother’s side kick. He’s 4 years older than me. He went into protective brother mode. He said if, heaven forbid, I should need a bone marrow transplant…he’d do that too if he was a match. He pretty much said he’d do anything. That’s really sweet to me, because he doesn’t know what’s involved with the procedure. All he knows is that I complained to him a month ago about how painful the bone marrow biopsy was, and he doesn’t know if he’ll be subjecting himself to the same kind of pain.

Well, I haven’t much else to say where the bone marrow results are concerned, but, as usual, I will report back where that is concerned. I will also be attending that dermatology thing next Thursday where my dermatologist wanted her colleagues to look at the whites spots on my face. I’ll report back on that also.